A total solar eclipse occurred on Monday, April 8 [O.S. March 29] 1652.[1][2] The path of totality intersected the British Isles, including the town of Carrickfergus in Ireland,[3] and passed just off the west coast of Norway.

The day acquired the name "Mirk Monday" in Scotland, due to the darkness that fell across the country.[2] Contemporary astrologers Nicholas Culpeper and William Lilly made broad and catastrophic predictions of the eclipse's effects on the world, which attracted criticism in the aftermath of the event.[4]

One 19th century source misreported the date of the eclipse as March 24, 1652.[5]

Observations

Observing the eclipse from Carrickfergus, Ireland, Dr. John Wybard wrote:[3][6]

Luna momento quasi, et eximproviso, totam se intra Disci Solis orbitam seu ambitum (quatenus conspectui nostro appareret) tam agiliter injiciebat; ut circumagere aut circumvolutare videretur, sicut catillus, seu lapis molaris superior; Sole tunc circum-circa, ejus limbum seu marginem splendidulo vel corusco, apparente.

The Moon, as if at that moment, and unexpectedly, threw itself so very nimbly between the entire path or circuit of the Sun’s disc (in so far as it appeared to our sight); so that it seemed to move in a circle or roll around, like a plate or upper mill-stone; with the Sun, glowing or rather shimmering, all around its rim or edge.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Simpson, J.A.; Weiner, E.S.C. (1989). "mirk". The Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford: Clarendon Press. p. 111. ISBN 0198612222.
  2. 1 2 Robinson, Mairi, ed. (1985). "mirk". The Concise Scots Dictionary. Aberdeen University Press. p. 416. ISBN 0-08-028491-4.
  3. 1 2 Wybard, John (1656). "De Eclipsi Solis, 29 Martii, 1652". Astronomia instaurata. By Wing, Vincent. London: R. and W. Leybourn. Book 4, p. 98. OL 16713419M.
  4. ↑ DeBold, Elizabeth (22 August 2017). "Black Monday: the Great Solar Eclipse of 1652". Folger Shakespeare Library.
  5. ↑ Barrington, Daines (June 1818). "The Possibility of approaching the North Pole Asserted". The Edinburgh Review. 30 (59): 29.
  6. ↑ Powell, Sarah, untitled translation from Latin, in DeBold, Elizabeth (22 August 2017). "Black Monday: the Great Solar Eclipse of 1652". Folger Shakespeare Library.
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